WODEHOUSE v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 5694.

178 F.2d 987 (1949)

WODEHOUSE v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 21, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Watson Washburn, New York City, for petitioner.

Melva M. Graney, Special Assistant to the Attorney General (Theron Lamar Caudle, Assistant Attorney General, Sewall Key, George A. Stinson and Helen Goodner, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, on brief), for respondent.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


DOBIE, Circuit Judge.

This case has been before us once before, 4 Cir., 166 F.2d 986. There, with one judge dissenting, we held that lump-sum payments, received in 1938 and 1941 by nonresident alien author from domestic publisher under agreement requiring publisher to obtain copyright on contents of its periodical and reassign to author on demand after serial publication had been completed all rights in story except American serial...

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